Questions tagged [timeline]
The basic purpose of the Timeline is to control movements of your objects in 3D space. The Timeline isn't the one really moving your objects in 3D space. Rather, the Timeline gives you insight as to when what will be where in the 3D space.
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Rigid/Cloth Simulation freezes at frame 250
Any idea of why my viewport preview of the simulation stops at 250 frames? (as you can see on the orange line on the timeline)
Am I maybe missing any kind of configuration?..
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How can I modify the frame rate without changing overall animation speed?
How can I change the animation fps when I already have finished making an animation? I already did an animation and I don't want spend some time recalculating the time by hand, is there a easy way to ...
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blender timeline in seconds instead of frames
I would like to have the time line and key frames be in seconds instead of frames. When I animate something at 30 fps and then decided to change it to 60 fps the animation will play at twice the speed....
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Is it possible to speed up/slow down the preview playback of an animation in the Timeline?
Using the Action Editor and in Pose Mode, I am editing the animation of my armature at 30 FPS. Maintaining that framerate, I would like a slower preview of my animation (like play at 50% normal speed) ...
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How to disable loop playback of animation?
Is there a way to stop looping playback in the timeline? I want to avoid sending additional animation data from blender by stopping the animation at the end frame and in another case to prevent ...
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Keyframes disappeared in the timeline - How do I get them back?
I guess I pressed a hotkey by accident and my keyframes disappeared for whatever reason. As far as I can tell the keyframes are hidden by the frame numbers numbers:
The animation still works, I can ...
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Can't figure out what kind of keyframe this is?
Can't figure out how to locate this keyframe, there's a tall yellowish green line on my timeline but I don't know what it represents tried narrowing things down by using the outliner but still can't ...
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Different start and end frame for each action
I have 2 actions, walk and idle. The idle animation is much longer than the walk. Each time I want to check my animations, I have to adjust the timeline ending frame, right now that's not too bad, ...
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Physics simulation won't run until the last frame of the timeline [duplicate]
I am making a rigid body physics simulation. It started out ending at 250 frames, but I later changed it to 400 frames.
The problem occurs when the whole animation stops at the 251st frame. Is there ...
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How to start a Time Node?
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This is my first compositing attempt in Blender, my goal is to create an animation shown in the render window, the animation is a simple shift from one colour to another within about 100 ...
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Moving a Smoke Simulation in Time
If I spend a couple hours baking a smoke simulation and then realize that I want it to happen several frames later in my animation, is there any way to shift what frames it occurs on without having to ...
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How to Read Timeline Seconds?
I feel pretty silly for asking, but I need to know. On the timeline sheet where it normally shows the keyframe numbers, when you go into to 'view' and you click 'show seconds' it gives you the seconds ...
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Global Slow-mo effect - Animating Time scale
Is there a way to animate the timescale of a scene for a small amount of time?
I'm looking to create an animation, and in the middle it goes from 1.0x speed, to 0.125x speed (1/8th normal speed), but ...
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Key frames appear in dopesheet but not in the timeline
When animating, I just realized that sometimes when I add a keyframe, it appears in the dopesheet but not in the timeline. Why?
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Why can't I see keyframes in the timeline? [duplicate]
I was doing some animation, when I didn't know how to animate using edit mode. Someone showed me a tutorial on YouTube by using hooks. It managed to work, but then I began to realise that the ...
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Shortcuts for Start and End values in the Timeline
In 2.79, it was easy to set the start and end values of the timeline with the S and E shortcuts:
If I put my green cursor at frame 42 and press S it sets the Start value at 42:
It would be great to ...
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How to Add Timeline Marker via Python?
I'd like to add a Timeline Marker via python script. How can I do it?
Using bpy.ops.clip.add_marker() requires me to have the context for command, so I'd prefer something like
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How do the AV-sync, Frame Dropping and No sync in Timeline work?
How do the AV-sync, Frame Dropping and No Sync options in Timeline work when working with audio and video?
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How can I jump to the first frame in the timeline? [duplicate]
As I was making an Animation I found my self to oftenly press AltA to start and stop the green slider, and then when I stopped it I had to get it with my mouse and move it back to the beginning of the ...
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Cloth Bake: Save frames in timeline as shape key?
I've run a cloth bake. It runs from frame 0 to 60. I can see the results in the timeline from frame 0 to 60. I want to save various frames as a seperate shapekey for the cloth. For example I want to ...
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How to stop playback absolutely
I have a scene with a lot of physics, and in some cases hitting 'play' means each frame takes a couple of minutes to calculate.
The play button becomes a pause button, but since the UI is locked up, ...
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Skip frames in rendering [duplicate]
This might sound weird. I have a scene with alembic files. There are chunks in the timeline which do not need to be rendered. For example in a 200 frames timeline I want to skip say 20-51 and then 110-...
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How can I retrieve current frame number for use in Geometry Nodes?
I know that I can use key frames in various fields of the Geometry Nodes. But I want a more explicit reference of current frame number. The only thing I found is the 'Frame' layout to enclose nodes.
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Timeline input fields, how to display?
in this my project I see for first time input fields in the left of the timeline; I don't know how I did it..
in other projects I don't know how to show/hide these very useful fields!!
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Extend Frames On Bezier Circle Path Animation
When putting an object to follow a path on a beizer circle. The frames it takes for a full 360 motion around the circle is 100 frames (from 1 frame to 101).
I was wondering if I could extend the ...
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What are negative frames for?
I noticed that one can extend timeline backward indefinitely. What's the purpose? Would there be any difference if I start my animation/simulation from frame -10 instead of frame 0?
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New Keyframe Types
On version 2.78 there are new keyframe types available on the timeline.
Jitter
Extreme
Breakdown
Keyframe
Can someone please explain how they are used?
Are they only colors that display on the ...
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2.8 how to restore timeline cursor jump to left click
in older versions of blender you could just click anywhere in the timeline and the cursor would jump to where you clicked, instead now it defaults to box select.
how do I change it back so i can ...
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Rendering via python - markers problems
I'm trying to render a timeline (or some specified frames) with a plugin. I set the active camera I want with
context.scene.camera = mycamera
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Is there an Echo effect for animating in blender?
I used to be a heavy user of After Effects, I am wondering if there is a similar effect to echo in Blender. That is used for simultaneously showing a specific animation in the future and the past ...
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Selecting Negative frames in timeline
I am having a weird issue. I can select every frame 0-4 except the negative frame (-1). I am not sure why I can't select it, anyone know why? The red arrow points to the keyframe I can't select? These ...
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Can't change my object duration on timeline
Total noob question, but how do I change the duration (in/out point) as to where it cuts in and out (appears) on the timeline.
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Object constrained along curve rotates unexpectedly when scrubbing timeline
I want the ball's rotation to not be affected for testing purposes. I have animated the Evaluation Time of the curve. When I scrub the Evaluation Time part (the field I animated), it works as expected....
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How can I move tracking markers along the timeline?
To explain the problem I have run into: I have created some tracking markers in the Movie Clip Editor and tracked several points in the clip, and I have added an offset to the movie clip so that it ...
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Python. How to find a point on the timeline where Fcurve reaches a certain value without changing current subframe?
Is there any way to find out via Python at which point of the Timeline (at which subframe) fcurve reaches a certain value, without actually changing the current subframe? I have found out that it was ...
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How to make this object wobble with animation gradually getting slower
I'm trying to do an animation of an object, which is struck by a hammer (as reference). When the object is struck I have made some keyframes of the movement (Rotation & Location), and distributed ...
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How can I make an object appear in timeline at a certain frame?
How can I add a specific object to my timeline at a certain frame?
I want to add a flag which should float over a pre-baked water fluid simulation. I baked a drop falling into water. After frame $120$,...
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Is there a quick way to space out timeline frames by X amount of spacing?
In the timeline say I have frames 1, 2, 3 and I want to pad 10 empty spaces in between them, so it would look like frame 1, 10 empty spaces, frame 2, 10 empty spaces, frame 3. Is there a shortcut to ...
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How to change the color of an object using the timeline?
I’m trying to assign specific colors to a certain moment on the timeline.
For example:
From 0-50 I want Red,
From 50-75 pink,
From 75-85 orange,
From 85-95 gold,
From 95-100 purple.
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Can't Edit Quick Explode
I used the preset Quick Explode (Is it a preset?), and after a while, I wanted to change it so Quick Explode happened later on in the animation so I could animate before it (like you would on the dope ...
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Apply Cyclic all at once
It seems like I can't just select all channels at once in the timeline. How can I apply cyclic to multiple channels at the same time?
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Is the playback maximum 60 fps?
Say I want to make a 100 fps video, can I not preview it at 100 fps over the timeline? Playback over 60 fps always displays "60 fps" on the playback screen.
Meaning I can create 1000 fps videos but I ...
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Deleting Grease Pencil Keyframes
I recently started working with the Grease Pencil and can't seem to figure out how to tweak and edit the keyframes of Grease Pencil. I want to be able to move them around on the timeline, but I'm not ...
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Apply modifier for unwrapping but maintain animation
I have a spring created from a circle with a screw modifier.
I'd like to include the coil in the UV unwrapping. If I apply the modifier though, the keyframes from my animation of the coil moving up ...
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Blender 2.8 - keyframes not showing?
I've just started playing around with Blender 2.80 and I'm trying to animate some lightning I did. Whenever I hit 'I' on the Brightness, whether it's at 0 or 1, no keyframe appears on the Timeline.
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Synchronizing animation with a beat
I want to make a music video for a techno song with a constant beat. I want to simulate strobe lights that flash in time with the beat (one set of lamps for the kicks, one for the snare etc).
Q what ...
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2.8 Metaball Animation -- viewport metasurface doesn't update
I am new to 2.8. I have a metasurface made of three objects, each with some number of metaballs. The metaballs are animated -- the keyframes are inserted on each element's location and radius ...
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Time remapping incompatible with particle info node?
I'm trying to make a spark material that fades to transparent as it reaches its lifetime limit. I've succeeded, but it absolutely does not work with time remapping for some reason. Here is my problem ...
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How to change material properties with time
I'm trying to create a magic halo behind an object. For this I decided (maybe, improperly - but I'm a newbie) to use hair. So I grew up a long hair, assigned an emissive material and made its colour ...
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How to create an image whose alpha value changes according to a curve through time in node-editor?
I connected an image-node with a composite-node and connected a value-node into the alpha of the composite-node. I changed the values and the image changed its transparency.
Then, I connected the ...
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